Pocket Athens

In Rick Steves Pocket Athens you'll find only the best of Athens — admittedly a tough call! The core of this book is five self-guided walks and tours that zero in on Athens' greatest sights and neighborhoods; the rest of the book is a traveler's tool kit:

• Practicalities
  • Advice on planning your time and avoiding crowds
  • ​​Getting around Athens by metro, bus, and taxi
  • Basic tips on shopping, nightlife, managing money, communicating, reserving rooms, handling emergencies, and other helpful hints
• Self-guided city walk
• Self-guided tours
  • Ancient Agora
  • Acropolis
  • Acropolis Museum
  • National Archaeological Museum
• More great sights: Descriptions, ratings, hours, and prices of Athens' other top attractions, from the Temple of Olympian Zeus to the Benaki Museum, and beyond
• Where to stay: Condensed listings for recommended hotels in easy-to-browse tables
• Where to eat: Condensed listings for recommended tavernas and restaurants in easy-to-browse tables
• And more
  • Handy, full-color, 11" x 20" foldout map: Athens city center, Plaka neighborhood, and Acropolis on one side; on the other: Ancient Agora, transit lines, port of Piraeus, along with larger map of Athens' peninsula and the Peloponnese
  • More full-color maps of Athens' neighborhoods and floor plans of museums and ancient sites
  • Brief descriptions of day-trip options
  • Handy Greek survival phrases

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What's the difference between this Pocket guide and Rick's Greece guidebook?

Rick Steves Pocket Athens works best for people taking a short trip, or perhaps a return trip, to Athens. Like our other Pocket guides, Pocket Athens is smaller than the complete guidebook (and in full color), but still offers our best sightseeing advice, self-guided city walks and museum tours, and a foldout map.

For travelers who want to delve deep into Athens, or travel elsewhere in Greece, the full-size Rick Steves Greece: Athens & the Peloponnese guidebook is a better option. It offers complete chapters for plenty more Greek destinations, as well as more substantial (and more frequently updated) advice on Athens itself: practicalities, sightseeing, hotels, restaurants, nightlife, shopping, and the city's history and culture.

Latest updates: When we learn of critical changes to the information in this guidebook, we post them. (Of course, it's still smart to reconfirm critical transportation and sightseeing details locally.) Armed with a Rick Steves guidebook and these late-breaking updates, you're set for a great trip!

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